A play by Sue Townsend, one of Britain's best-selling writersWhen Sita and her children leave India to join her husband in England, she is forced to sell her cow, but she keeps her milking bucket in t
"When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck
"This Malevole is one of the most prodigious affections that ever conversed with nature: a man, or rather a monster, more discontent than Lucifer."The Malcontent is a striking example of the
Silent is the touching and provocative story of homeless McGoldrig who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all - including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through
This volume includes the TV version and the stage adaptation"When you marry, have kids...you'll still be in that chair." An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She will n
A young man alone in a room. A stranger enters. Together they journey into a dark forest...Coffee centres around the death of a child and asks disturbing questions about the history of the 20th centur
This volume brings together two plays of unbearable love and brutality by the winner of the 1994 George Devine and Verity Bargate awardsBruises: Beyond the windows of a South Coast boarding house lies
"The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian FrielModelled on Oliver Goldsmith's classic novel The Vicar of Wakefield, Murphy buil
Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph)In his new play, Remember This, Stephen Poliakoff looks at the insidious role
Canary is multi-award winning playwright Jonathan Harvey's long-awaited return to the stage: a deeply moving, funny, unflinching, and often magical story about love, honesty and being brave enough to
A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novelsThe Discworld's most inept wizard has been sent from Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork to the oppressive Agatean Empire to help some wel
Farquhar's last two plays, The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux'Stratagem, have been called 'the last worthwhile comedies of theRestoration tradition'. Written during Farquhar's stint in Shrewsburyas
A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers"Set in the year 2001 where the class system is numbered from one to five and only the upperclasses are allowed to breed, Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toe
It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not fo
The Robben Island Shakespeare is a verbatim play derived from South African Sonny Venkatrathnam's copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare and interviews with former political prisoners held on this
Filming's not as glamorous as it's cracked up to be. It's a bit of a miserable business if your caravan leaks, your co-star's a manic depressive, and those younger women aren't so young anymore.Carryi
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays
Filumena Marturano is a retired prostitute. Unbeknown to her faithless lover, Domenico, Filumena has three adult sons and has been using his money to pay for their upbringing. Feigning near death, Fil
Friday night, first thing, the tanning shop, a good nine-minute blaster!Shane is another thirty-year-old weekend millionaire, still living at home with his parents. Tonight, he's hitting the town. On
No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman.It's New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she's gay.